NEW 3-PLAY SUMMER FESTIVAL WILL HONOR AUGUST WILSON A newly minted three-play festival, titled the August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience, will run for six weeks this summer, said Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s Mark Clayton Southers, offering a sneak peek… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON Playwright August Wilson will be honored posthumously with the 2,799th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. EST. Denzel Washington and the cast and filmmakers of The Piano Lesson movie will attend the… Read More ›
One of Pittsburgh’s Finest Actors will portray one of Pittsburgh’s Greatest Playwrights when Prime Stage Theatre Presents Wali Jamal performing August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned First performed by Wilson himself, two years before his death at age 60, How I Learned What I… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company has announced three 2025 productions, including Two Trains Running, which will “be presented as part of a planned festival of August Wilson plays, taking place at Madison Arts Center, August Wilson House and the August Wilson… Read More ›
I have come here today… to talk about the ground on which I stand and all the many grounds on which I and my ancestors have toiled, and the ground of theater on which my fellow artists and I have… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON The spirit of August Wilson permeated the O’Reilly Theater Monday night, as the monologue and design competition that bears his name came home to Pittsburgh for the first time. The August Wilson New Voices Competition – formerly… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the premiere production of The Coffin Marker, the newest addition to Mark Clayton Southers’ cycle of plays set in the 19th century, directed by Monteze Freeland. The cast features… Read More ›
Three local students will represent Pittsburgh in the national August Wilson New Voices Competition, to be held at Pittsburgh Public Theater on April 29. In its 18th year, this is the first time the nationwide competition will be held in… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company settles into its Madison Arts Center home this year, starting in April with the biomusical Dinah and the return to the August Wilson House backyard stage, with Radio Golf. The season, with no specific dates at… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON So much Pittsburgh theater, so little time is among my top picks for the subtitle of my theater-going life. A good overall title might be: “There’s No Business Like Covering Show Business.” Combine those two, and you… Read More ›
